sandlot

Definitions

WordNet 3.6

nsandlota vacant lot used by city boys to play games

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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

sandlotPertaining to or resembling the socialistic or communistic followers of Denis Kearney, an Irish agitator, whose principal place of meeting was in the “sand-lots” or unoccupied lands of San Francisco: as, a sand-lot orator; the sand-lot constitution (the constitution of California framed in the year 1879 under the influence of the “sand-lot” agitation).

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Usage

In literature:

Your nerves has gone back on you, Sandlot.

"Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective" by Ellis Parker Butler

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In news:

First used as a baseball sandlot in 1908, Cardines Field has hosted baseball in Newport for over a century.